bad managers
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- olli1010
HA! I just got out of a situation like this ultimately the person (and his subordinate) in question were terminated because they were seriously damaging my team's workflow.
I can offer this advice -
1: You need to really understand WHY the manager is bad - is it attitude, communication, discipline, all of them? Document everything.
2: Is that manager acting differently than everyone else (arrogance, incompetence, etc...) or is it really a greater symptom of company culture?
If it's just the manager - have a polite but firm conversation about what's working (very important) and what isn't. Cover your ass if you need to with recent accomplishments but make it clear that things need to change and you're willing to meet them half-way for the good of everyone. If you have the support of the company, chances are you'll win in the end as long as you play it cool and back it up with concrete examples.
For example, I went to a VERY senior person and showed how this person was ruining morale and damaging the workflow with a bad attitude. Members of my team did as well and it worked.
If it's the company culture that promotes or is unwilling to address this sort of thing - RUN. Seriously. All it will do is drag you down, make you miserable and eventually wreck your self-esteem
and productivity.Just because we're "creative" and "non-corporate" doesn't mean we need to put up with unprofessional bullshit. It's a very big job market out there and if employers don't realize that they will never
retain decent employees if they don't know how treat employees fairly.You can always do better.
Ok, rant over.